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so the catholics of egypt and orthodox of egypt as well as the protestants of egypt being under pressure all the time, discriminated against because of their faith, their faith must mean something to them- they are willing to pay for it. and those who are willing to pay for it and not to convert to islam under the pressure of poverty or lack of promotion, they must have a personal relationship with god- sacrament first or agent first- there is that living experience. the coptic church always puts emphasis on repentance, and repentance is in your life- one turns his back to sin and his face to god. so i think that they have that beautiful link between a person and christ under the pressure, and with the teaching, even if it is not as clear as protestants bring up justification by faith. >> see, that's a very remarkable spin on being a minority in a country with a dominant religion. as our conversation went on, he was saying something along the lines of, "you americans who are christian, you don't appreciate your christianity because it comes so easy." here- and he went on and on about thi
so the catholics of egypt and orthodox of egypt as well as the protestants of egypt being under pressure all the time, discriminated against because of their faith, their faith must mean something to them- they are willing to pay for it. and those who are willing to pay for it and not to convert to islam under the pressure of poverty or lack of promotion, they must have a personal relationship with god- sacrament first or agent first- there is that living experience. the coptic church always...
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, and i think it's important to understand what sort of things egypt needed right away was an ability to sell government bonds and treasury bills were because it takes about 14% interest which is pretty high for a government come and immediate deaths things look terrible. they came in and said okay. we will buy your one month issue of bills. a good payment unless the government defaults on everything. but that has helped relieve some of the interest pressure and try to move egypt out of the debt trap than greece or italy or spain. the second thing they have done is like the development bank there's quite good development banks that help identify the investment projects, make sure they are built without corruption and that they become effective. i think it is $4.5 billion that were qatar and saudi arabia have and christine was out there in september and they were working on a long program, very low interest rate and there would be another four and a half million or so but then egypt has a fighting chance to get an economy back on its feet. if you have an economy back on its feet then i
, and i think it's important to understand what sort of things egypt needed right away was an ability to sell government bonds and treasury bills were because it takes about 14% interest which is pretty high for a government come and immediate deaths things look terrible. they came in and said okay. we will buy your one month issue of bills. a good payment unless the government defaults on everything. but that has helped relieve some of the interest pressure and try to move egypt out of the...
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congress have recently called on the state department to stop sending foreign aid to countries like egypt and pakistan and your administration what would the goals of foreign aid be and are there any specific nations from which you would strip us aid governor johnson foreign aid the poor people in this country give money to rich people in other countries and contrary to what we all grow up believing foreign aid doesn't go to poor people in foreign countries foreign aid goes to prop up new dictatorships that have taken over from old dictatorships but the new dictatorships have american interests at heart and that's why we give foreign aid during the last debate romney was asked about a two and a half billion dollars of foreign aid to pakistan and his answer was no we really shouldn't be fiddling with that two and a half billion dollars because pakistan has nuclear weapons well what message does that send to a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons the message that sends is the only way you get united states respect is the have nuclear weapons now we're back to the iran issue and if you
congress have recently called on the state department to stop sending foreign aid to countries like egypt and pakistan and your administration what would the goals of foreign aid be and are there any specific nations from which you would strip us aid governor johnson foreign aid the poor people in this country give money to rich people in other countries and contrary to what we all grow up believing foreign aid doesn't go to poor people in foreign countries foreign aid goes to prop up new...
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much the same as what happened in libya where western countries recognize the opposition as the only egypt in the government and then launched military action. the concern is that by not recognizing the syrian president bashar assad wish to nations will be given great a freedom to do what they want next country. and more on the effort surrounding the syrian crisis now joined live by. the director and founder of the french center for intelligence studies. so good to see you today sir thank you very much for coming on the program we're talking about the issue of syrian rebels getting their hands on high tech american weapons are they coming straight from washington or exactly how the syrian rebels getting their hands on such sophisticated weapons or are you it's too early to know exactly between perfectly know that all these rebel groups i mean most of them. they receive the strong support from the american government directly sometimes at the most of the turkey channel as well as. the channel so it's very difficult to know exactly what kind of very modern weapons are they receive but. the m
much the same as what happened in libya where western countries recognize the opposition as the only egypt in the government and then launched military action. the concern is that by not recognizing the syrian president bashar assad wish to nations will be given great a freedom to do what they want next country. and more on the effort surrounding the syrian crisis now joined live by. the director and founder of the french center for intelligence studies. so good to see you today sir thank you...
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state of egypt. egypt is threatening israel. egypt is threatening the region because of the arab spring. we have to rethink the dollars that we are sending to egypt. we have to say that these dollars are for maintaining a security and peace and if you are not participating, you do not get these dollars. that is job one. we have to continue our commitment of foreign policy to israel. israel is our strongest ally and our sister country come and we need to do everything we can fulfill our to fulfill our commitment. all of the foreign aid is spent right here in america un-american jobs. that is when the requirements. we need to gather up our allies and protect the people who serve in our state department we can secure them, they shouldn't be there. >> moderator: i'm going to go forward, but what you think should be the basic guiding principles, speaking a bit more probably? berg: if you are referring to dollars spent, or in general, our foreign policy, america is the leader of the world. we need to look
state of egypt. egypt is threatening israel. egypt is threatening the region because of the arab spring. we have to rethink the dollars that we are sending to egypt. we have to say that these dollars are for maintaining a security and peace and if you are not participating, you do not get these dollars. that is job one. we have to continue our commitment of foreign policy to israel. israel is our strongest ally and our sister country come and we need to do everything we can fulfill our to...
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together between our country and saudi arabia is the fallout from the arab spring, particularly between egypt and yemen. i think we know that saudi arabia had mixed feelings about how quickly mubarak was dumped, and -- but they also, the saudis playeded a crucial role of easing yemen. it was not easy. it was slow. it was bloody, but compared to the other changes, it was not that bad. in april of to 20* -- 2011, just as the arab spring was in full bloom, if you will, the c7 finance ministers met in france and formed a partnership with the vision that was simple that europe had been through this kind of thing before. after eastern europe broke away
together between our country and saudi arabia is the fallout from the arab spring, particularly between egypt and yemen. i think we know that saudi arabia had mixed feelings about how quickly mubarak was dumped, and -- but they also, the saudis playeded a crucial role of easing yemen. it was not easy. it was slow. it was bloody, but compared to the other changes, it was not that bad. in april of to 20* -- 2011, just as the arab spring was in full bloom, if you will, the c7 finance ministers met...